وزن الطرد
“وزن الطرد” (визн ат-тард) — parcel weight in Arabic. Noun, level A1. Wazn you met in "put on weight" and "slim down"; here it is pressed against the familiar ṭard. At the post it is weighed in front of you. In a live sentence: “كم وزن الطرد؟” — What is the weight of the parcel? Written with the characters و, ز, ن, ا, ل, ط, ر, د. A word from the everyday Arabic course, level A1.
In short
| Written in Arabic | وزن الطرد |
| Read in Latin letters | визн ат-тард |
| Translation | parcel weight |
| Part of speech | noun |
| Level | A1 |
Why it looks that way
Wazn you met in "put on weight" and "slim down"; here it is pressed against the familiar ṭard. At the post it is weighed in front of you
A word with a story stays in memory longer than one learned as a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.
In a live sentence
A single word almost never appears alone in conversation. A sentence shows where it fits and what stands next to it.
- كم وزن الطرد؟кам визн ат-тард؟What is the weight of the parcel?
How not to forget this word
Reading a word and remembering it are different jobs. A day later, little survives of a single reading — and that is not bad memory, that is how memory works.
- This has been tested on foreign words too. The difference shows up most when you test yourself a few days later rather than straight away.checked many timesKim & Webb, 2022, Language Learning 72(2) · 48 experiments, 3,411 participants, 98 comparisons.
- Recalling beats re-reading. Covering the translation and trying to remember it does more than reading it ten more times.checked many timesAdesope, Trevisan & Sundararajan, 2017, Review of Educational Research 87(3) · 188 experiments, 272 comparisons. g = 0.61; against plain re-reading 0.51, against passive review 0.93.
- An answer you worked out yourself sticks better than one handed to you.checked many timesBertsch et al., 2007, Memory & Cognition 35(2) · 86 studies, 445 comparisons, d = 0.40.
Frequently asked
How do you say “parcel weight” in Arabic?
«وزن الطرد», read “визн ат-тард”. In a live sentence: “كم وزن الطرد؟” — What is the weight of the parcel? Noun, level A1; written with the characters و, ز, ن, ا, ل, ط, ر, د.
How is “وزن الطرد” written in Latin letters?
визн ат-тард. This is a practical spelling — you need it to read aloud and be understood, not to meet an academic standard.
Why does this word look the way it does?
Wazn you met in "put on weight" and "slim down"; here it is pressed against the familiar ṭard. At the post it is weighed in front of you. A word with a story stays in memory longer than a “spelling — translation” pair: memory holds on to meaning, not to a string.